a16z Podcast

  • All About Ransomware

    In just the last couple years, ransomware has grown into a multibillion dollar industry. It has evolved from taking systems and servers hostage to stealing data, and it has proven capable of shutting down global…


  • One on One with Marc and Ben

    On social audio app Clubhouse, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are hosting a new live show called “One on One with A and Z”, where they go deep on questions submitted via Twitter. The show…


  • Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More

    When you hear stories about Amazon’s “invention machine” — which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of business — we often hear about things like:…


  • Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How

    In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes — past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230, Tiktok, GPT-3, the opioid crisis, more — we cover the SolarWinds…


  • Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects

    In recent years, there’s been a shift in how we think about psychedelics – from drugs of abuse and recreation, to powerful drugs for treating neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, addiction, and PTSD.   But…


  • Developers as Creatives

    The rise of developers — as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class — is a direct result of “software eating the world”, and of key shifts in IT from on-prem to cloud & SaaS…


  • Section 230: Everything You Need to Know — Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond

    All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as “one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I’ve heard – worth listening to”. …


  • Baumol’s Cost Disease, in Healthcare… and Where We Go Next

    If software’s eating the world — and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries — why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant? And what could the future look like…


  • Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)

    “In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”… so it’s unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary did NOT name a word of…


  • The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation

    In this special episode of Bio Eats World — which aired right after the FDA authorized Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for emergency use — Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel tells the story of not just the vaccine’s…


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